ILCAA Joint Research Project

Présence Africaine: Text, Thought and Movement

Keywords

• Negritude
• Decolonization
• Cold War era
• Cultural studies

Areas

• Africa
• Americas
• Europe
• Atlantic

Website

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About the Project

Project term: April, 2018–March, 2021

Our research project deals with the black literary and cultural journal Présence Africaine, first published in 1947. By re-examining selected issues, the project attempts to shed new light on black thought and political movements of the mid-20th century, thereby attempting to explore the changing relations between politics and culture in the increasingly globalized world of the post-Cold War era. To achieve this aim, the project will consist of collective reading of texts published in the journal and written in a variety of languages, reflection on current black thoughts such as négritude from different angles, and research on the journal’s connection with international black movements.

Members

Coordinator

• Takayuki NAKAMURA (Waseda University)

ILCAA Staff

• Ryoko NISHII

Joint Researchers

• Kay AOKI
• Kunio FUKUDA
• Ryo FUKUSHIMA
• Moriyuki HOSHINO
• Ryoichi KUNO
• Hisashi MATSUMOTO
• Haruse MURATA
• Seiji NAKAO
• Ryo OGAWA
• YuChol RIM
• Masaki SAKIYAMA
• Yutaka SAKUMA
• Yukio SATO
• Yuichi SEKIYA
• Hidehiro TACHIBANA

Outputs

Meetings

The 7th meeting ：Report (Japanese)(839KB)

• Date/Time: Sat 13 Mar 2021 – Sun 14 Mar 2021 10:30–18:30
• Venue: ILCAA Multimedia Conference Room (304) *Depending on the situation of COVID-19, it may become online meeting
• Language: Japanese
• Jointly sponsored by ILCAA Joint Research Project “Présence Africaine: Text, Thought and Movement”, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) “Global Studies on Historical Formation of World Cultural Capital System” (Principal Investigator: Moriyuki HOSHINO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, The University of Tokyo) Project Number: 17H02328)
• 13 Mar

• 10:30-12:30 All Members

  Meeting for the publication of the research results

  13:30-18:30 All Members

  “Reading the texts of Présence Africaine”

• 14 Mar

• 10:30-12:30 Yukio SATO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Professor Emeritus,Toyama University)

  13:30-15:30 Kazue HOSODA (ILCAA)

  “Aharon Amir and the Canaanism: The Achivements of Literary Journal Keshet in Israel”

  15:30-16:30 Yutaka SAKUMA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Meiji University) and Takayuki NAKAMURA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Waseda University)

  “Summary of the two research projects: “Présence Africaine: Text, Thought and Movement” and “Global Studies on Historical Formation of World Cultural Capital System”

  16:30-18:30 All Members

  Discussion

The 6th meeting ：Report (Japanese)(860KB)

• Date/Time: Sat 5 Sep 2020 13:00–18:30, Sun 6 Sep 2020 10:30–15:00
• Venue: ILCAA Multimedia Conference Room (304)*Depending on the situation about COVID-19, it would become online meeting
• Language: Japanese
• Jointly sponsored by ILCAA Joint Research Project “Présence Africaine: Text, Thought and Movement”, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) “Global Studies on Historical Formation of World Cultural Capital System” (Principal Investigator: Moriyuki HOSHINO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, The University of Tokyo) Project Number: 17H02328)
• 5 Sep

• 13:00-15:00 Yuichi SEKIYA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, The University of Tokyo)

  “Reconsidérant “Alerte sous les Tropiques” par Cheikh Anta Diop”

  15:00-17:00 Tasuku SASAKI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kobe University)

  ““Popular” Revolution and a Literary Magazine: About “Revista Cultural Nicaráuac”, Nicaragua 1980's”

  17:00-18:30 All members

  Discussion on the next research meeting

• 6 Sep

• 10:30-12:30 Yutaka SAKUMA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Meiji University)

  “Maghemout Diop “L’unique issue : l’indépendance totale””

  13:30-15:00 All Members

  Discussion

The 5th meeting ：Report (Japanese)(104KB)

• Date/Time: Thu 7 Apr 2020 10:00–12:30
• Venue: Online meeting via Zoom
• Language: Japanese
• Jointly sponsored by ILCAA Joint Resarch Project “Présence Africaine: Text, Thought and Movemen”, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) “Global Studies on Historical Formation of World Cultural Capital System” (Principal Investigator: Moriyuki HOSHINO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, The University of Tokyo) Project Number: 17H02328)

• 10:30-12:30 All Members

  “Discussion on the next research meeting”

[This meeting has been canceled]
The 5th meeting

• Date/Time: Mon 30 Mar 2020 10:30–18:00, Tue 31 Mar 2020 10:00–15:00
• Venue: Graduate School of Humanities build. A & C, Rokkodai 2nd Campus, Kobe University
• Language: Japanese
• Jointly sponsored by ILCAA Joint Resarch Project “Présence Africaine: Text, Thought and Movement”, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) “Global Studies on Historical Formation of World Cultural Capital System” (Principal Investigator: Moriyuki HOSHINO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, The University of Tokyo) Project Number: 17H02328), Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Research (Exploratory) “Study of the black literary and cultural journal Présence Africaine by an anthropological approach” (Principal Investigator: Yutaka SAKUMA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Meiji University) Project Number:17K18480)
• 30 Mar

• 10:30-12:30 All Members

  “Discussion on the next research meeting”

  13:30-18:00

  1. Yuichi SEKIYA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, The University of Tokyo)

  “Reconsidérant “Alerte sous les Tropiques” par Cheikh Anta Diop”

  2. Tasuku SASAKI (Kobe University)

  ““Popular” Revolution and a Literary Magazine: About “Revista Cultural Nicaráuac”, Nicaragua 1980's”

• 31 Mar

• 10:00-12:30 Yutaka SAKUMA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Meiji University)

  “Maghemout Diop “L’unique issue : l’indépendance totale””

  13:30-15:00 All Members

  Discussion

The 4th meeting ：Report (Japanese)(242KB)

• Date/Time: Sat 27 Jul 2019 13:00–19:00, Sun 28 Jul 2019 10:30–17:00
• Venue: Room 306, ILCAA
• Language: Japanese
• Jointly sponsored by ILCAA, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) “Global Studies on Historical Formation of World Cultural Capital System” (Principal Investigator: Moriyuki HOSHINO (The University of Tokyo) Project Number: 17H02328), Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Research (Exploratory) “Study of the black literary and cultural journal Présence Africaine by an anthropological approach” (Principal Investigator: Yutaka SAKUMA (Meiji University) Project Number:17K18480)
• 27 Jul

• 1. Takayuki NAKAMURA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Waseda University)

  “Presentation on The Poems of David Diop”

  2. Ryo FUKUSHIMA(ILCAA Joint Researcher,Graduate School,the University of Tokyo)

  “Reading The Poems of David Diop”

  3. Yutaka SAKUMA(ILCAA Joint Researcher, Meiji University)

  “Introduction to the Feature Articles in Journal of African Studies, No.94: Présence Africaine Research”

  4. All Members

  Discussion

• 28 Jul

• 1. All Members

  “Discussion”

  2. Moriyuki HOSHINO(ILCAA Joint Researcher, the University of Tokyo)

  “Literary Africa in Japan: around Kanjiro Noma”

The 3rd meeting

• Date/Time: Sat 23 Mar 2019 10:30–18:30, Sun 24 Mar 2019 10:00–18:00
• Venue: Room 304, ILCAA
• Language: Japanese
• Jointly sponsored by ILCAA, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) “Global Studies on Historical Formation of World Cultural Capital System” (Principal Investigator: Moriyuki HOSHINO (The University of Tokyo) Project Number: 17H02328), Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Research (Exploratory) “Study of the black literary and cultural journal Présence Africaine by an anthropological approach” (Principal Investigator: Yutaka SAKUMA (ILCAA) Project Number:17K18480)
• 23 Mar

• 1. Takayuki NAKAMURA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Waseda University)

  “Reading an article in Présence Africaine”

  2. Seiji NAKAO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature)

  “Competition between Written Languages in West Africa and Présence africaine: Letters, Print/Manuscript, and Transcription for Amadou Hampâté Bâ”

  3. Ryouichi KUNO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, TUFS)

  “Africa in Cuban literary journals: From Revista de Avance to Anales del Caribe”

  4. All Members

  Discussion

• 24 Mar

• 1. Hisashi MATSUMOTO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Yokohama National University)

  “African Renaissance and Traditional Leadership”

  2. Ryo OGAWA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Professor Emeritus, TUFS)

  “Assimilation" and nationalism for Boilat and Senghor”

  3. Ryo Hukushima (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Graduate School, the University of Tokyo)

  “Suigyu Ensemble and Cultural Capital —— Digital Archive Project and Analyze”

  4. All Members

  Discussion

The 2nd meeting ：Report (Japanese)(136KB)

• Date/Time: Sun 27 Jan 2019 15:00–18:00
• Venue: Collaboration Room 4, 4F, Bldg.18, Komaba Campus, The University of Tokyo (3-8-1 Komaba Meguro-ku, Tokyo)
• Language: French and Japanese
• Jointly sponsored by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) ”Global Studies on Historical Formation of World Cultural Capital System” (Principal Investigator: Moriyuki HOSHINO (The University of Tokyo)) (17H02328), ILCAA Joint Research Project “Présence Africaine: Text, Thought and Movement”

• Hamid Mokaddem (l'Institut de Formation des Maîtres de la Nouvelle-Calédonie )

  “Independence / interdependence / sovereignty in New Caledonia (Indépendance/ interdépendances/ souverainté en Nouvelle-Calédonie)”

  All Members

  Discussion

The 1st meeting ：Report (Japanese)(215KB)

• Date/Time: Sun 24 Jun 2018 10:30–18:30
• Venue: Hongo Satellite 5F Seminar Room
• Language: Japanese
• Jointly sponsored by Joint Research Project “Présence Africaine: Text, Thought and Movement”, Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Research (Exploratory) “Study of the black literary and cultural journal Présence Africaine by an anthropological approach”

• Takayuki NAKAMURA (ILCAA joint Researcher, Waseda University)

  Introduction

  Yutaka SAKUMA (ILCAA)

  On the next research project

  All Members

  Self-introductions

  Hidehiro TACHIBANA (ILCAA joint Researcher, Waseda University)

  “Présence Africaine and concepts of culture”

  All Members

  Discussion

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